The state's Public Service Commission has been reviewing the proposed merger between cable giants Time Warner Cable and Comcast as part of an application to the board to merge the two companies

A nationwide outage of Time Warner Cable's Internet services Wednesday morning has drawn the ire of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In a statement late Wednesday morning, Cuomo said he has directed the state Department of Public Service to probe the outage, which affected more than 11 million TWC customers in the pre-dawn hours.

The state's Public Service Commission has been reviewing the proposed merger between cable giants Time Warner Cable and Comcast as part of an application to the board to merge the two companies. But the commission, of course, only has jurisdiction in New York.

"I have directed the New York State Department of Public Service to investigate this outage as part of its review of Comcast's proposed merger with Time Warner," Cuomo said in his statement. "The Department will also review whether the outage affected Time Warner's provision of telephone service in any way."

On its Twitter account, Time Warner Cable apologized for the outage.

TWC apologizes for Net outage that occurred early AM. We restored services at 6AM ET & customers can contact @TWC_Help anytime as needed.